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The Grenada gazette., 1887-10-22
SHREWD DRUMMERS.
They Form Syndicate and "Corner" tho
Texas Trade at Dallas,

They Form q Syndicate and "Corncr" the
Texas Trade at Dallas.
have been a travelling man almost
since the system Of selling by sample
on the road began. I have seen its
steady advance toward perfection, un-
til it seemed there was nothing left for
improvement; but an experience at
Dallas, Tex, has shown that even yet
the possibilities of the imam on the
road are unknown. A number of
salesmen in the holiday goods line
conceived the idea Of forming syn
dicate and "cornering' the Texas
trade at Dallas. With this object in
view, they chartered all the largest
sample-rooms Of the Windsor Hotel,
and mailed printed invitation to
dealers, signed by the salesmen and
firms represented, inviting them to
come at their expense and place their
orders The combination consisted of
eight salesmen, representing three
New York toy houses, two pearl and
fancy goods, one each Philadelphia
and st. Louis. and Boston, New York
and Chicago holiday books line. In
order to entertain the buyers, separ-
ate table was reserved, and promptly
at 1:SO p. m. dinner was announced,
and it was imperative that each sales.
man and his guest should be on hand;
no business excuses were allowed.
The dinner usually occupied an hour,
and good cheers, wine and anecdote
were the programme. The rest of the
day was given to sales. On the door
OF each sample-room was a printed
list Of the firms represented, and the
number of each salesman's sample
room. While each man did his best to
make sales, there was no underhand
cutting. A buyer had the privilege of
going through all the lines and placing
. part or the whole Of his order as
prices and goods suited. Rivalry to a
certain degree was laid aside. each
buyer was introduced to all the men,
and even rivals had the privilege Of
visiting each others sample-rooms,
and smoked and jested together with
the utmost freedom. It was depart.
urc from the beaten path of men on
theroad, and success beyond every
expectation. D C!anahan, IN
Globe Democrat.
The Grenada gazette., 1887-10-22
Artesian Wells.

Tho name artesian, as applied to
wells, came from one sunk In Artois,
France, and said to be the first Of tho
kind sunk with q full knowledge OF the
principles involved. Artesian wells are
possibly only in certain localities.
Where thsre are pervious strata lying
between impervious beds tho water
will be Imprisoned in percolating
through; lying upon the lowest. and
rising to some point in the highest,
where . pervious stratum brings it b
The surface. II escapes in tho form OF
springs, or II shaft be sunk to tho
lowest point the water Of the whole
basin will press upwards for escape
and will rise TO . level. corresponding
. the greatest height to which the Inn
prisoned strata roach. Al soon ~
geology took possession as q science. .
biological survey At locality readily
discovered whsthor supply Of water
"a obtaissbls In this way.-Pai'odsI
this CaR Elss aa 5
The Grenada gazette., 1887-10-22
RAILROAD CONDUCTORS.
The Difficulties u Train Captain Has to
Keep His Place.

The Difficulties u Tram captain Has TO
Keep His Place.
Railroads do not often reinstate a
p,an after he has been bounced, " said 4
veteran of the rail to me as we were
laundering along his road. "A pas.
senger conductor is generally one who
has been promoted from the brakes.
Sometimes an engineer is made con-
ductor, but you will find these things
an exception. Companies like to keep
good engineers at the throttle. They
had rather give them m lore pay than
to promote them. As II rule it is first
brakeman on n freight, then to the
same place OH passenger, then con-
ductor on freight and by and by to
the passenger train by mighty slow
coaches. Many passenger conduct.
or has to work as IAN extra" for two
years or more before he gets a train
of his own. And then. when the COW
eted place is in sight, he has a wreck,
and if he hasn't n mighty good case
and occasionally influence he gets
bounced. Then he has to go to some
other road and begin at the bottom.
II know man who has worked up
this way for ton years The very first
run he had with his regular train there
was . smashup. and after the inycsti-
CATION he was fired He had saved up
about 1000. He took this money and
went on the Board Of Trade. and lost
every dollar in less than q week. He
went to railroading again. at the
brakes OH freight, for another COM
pany, and has just been put on as con.
ductor OF q freight on a Western road
that kills about six conductors every
year Barring the dangers Of an en-
einccr, his place is the bcst on tho
road. It is mighty seldom that an
engineer, II hc escapes. is held to ac-
count for an accident. The Brother.
hood Of Locomotiv, Engineers is the
strongest and s,aunchest organization
nm the face of tho earth. and Is the only
ono that o yailroad directory is afraid
of. But tho place Of conductor cspe.
cially passenger conductor Is tho most
nnpraieful and uncertain that man
can hold" "-Chicago Mail.
The Grenada gazette., 1887-10-22
COLONEL YERGER'S DPram
NOW the Terrors of Night We're Realize,
in Broad Daylight.

~ ffsSINi
Ao" sne TerrOrs of Night We're Rea.izeo
in Broad Daylight.
some folks who have had dreams
take great pleasure in describing
them. and such a one is Colonel
Yerger.
The other day the Colonel moved
down one of the principal streets in
Austin, wearing troubled expression
and new suit Of clothes. In his un.
wonted abstraction he very nearly
collided with Judge Peterby.
"Why so pensive?" inquired Judc
Peterby, "and why that haunted
looke'
Hello, Peterbyr' exclaimed Colonel
Yerger Excuse me; l did not see
you. Well, well, l don't wonder thai
! look haunted. l have been hunted
all night"
Hunted, eh1 IT'S better to hun,
than to be hunted. In what ferocous
manner were you pursued? Snakes.
savages or wild animals? Bad dream
or a well-developed case of night
marep"
"a dream. At least, it was partly
a dream. partly stern reality"
what were the prevailing symp.
toms-the principal features, Yer.
ger?'
'In the first place, imagined my.
self at Ell Paso, and that mad dog
tried to scrape my acquaintance and
interview me. Now, l despise mad
dogs. and want none of their atten.
tons, and consequently struck right
out for Galveston Bay, nine hundred
miles distant. southeast. The dog
still pursued me, like the villain in
the play, and when I reached the
Gulf l was not leading by more than
two or three lengths at the best; but
in went, and the wide-mouthed case
Of canned hydrophobia plunged right
in after me. And the brute actually
waded, too, waded more than three
miles. Those Galveston people never
wanted deep water worse than l did.
] don't know how much water the dog
drew, but he got stuck on the bar. all
the same, and l struck boldly out with
full arm. hand-over-hand stroke for
Mexico. Pretty soon playful but
heavy-jawed shark got after me, and
! was sorry then 1 had not remained
in company with the mad dog. Finally
! gained the land somewhere down on
Campechy banks. and there l found
myself gazing down into the open
countenance of the bigge st alligator !
ever saw in my life. You
could throw Saratoga trunks
right down into his hold
and not overload him. Tile alligator
smiled, and l bowed defcrentially. ]
wanted to keep on the right side of
him. That was the outside. But l
did wish at that supreme and awful
moment. that | had been desiccated by
the shark. But just as the alligator
had made all his little interior ~
rangcments for my reception I awoke.
My mother-in-law was looking down
on me with the calm stony stare of y
basilisk, and l was then rcgretful l
had not jumped down the alligator's
larynx, and gone into winter quarters.
! learned, too late, that all the rest of
my torments had been myths. Here
was stern reality. Was it not hor-
rible thing to be tortured all night and
then at broad daylight be turned over
to the enemya' Texas Sitti'1gs
The Grenada gazette., 1887-10-22

The working arrangements between
the Mississippi and Tennessee and
Illinois Central Railroads insures the
prompt handling of Freight business
forwarded over the Mississippi and
Tennessee Railroad, shipments reach
ing destination following day of de-
livery at Memphis depot.
Business consigned to the care of the
Mississippi and Teunesses Railroad
at Memphis meets with dispatch wiz
this route.
We solicit your business, and request
your calling upon agents for infor-
nation, etc.
The Grenada gazette., 1887-10-22

.-"lse very sorry. boss, Dat ! va,
led astray ter take do wateh,' sai.'
lin Webster TO ON Austin justice. u
nm olad to see that you regret yol'l
crime. What was II that led You to
take tho watchp" replied his Honor.
calmly. II was deludcd by do chain.
and dat dar was q gold watch hanging
n de end ofik Dc chain delnded me,
All. inter taking do watch D, brass
sh.in am do cause oh all dose heal
~, nlerasshuna . ~ zssas 6if!i1ga
The Grenada gazette., 1887-10-22
!. C. r. r. TIME TABLE.

A fine new Wilson Sewing Machine
complete with all the latest attach
ments and improvements, for sale
cheap. Come around and give us y
bid. Apply to the Junior editor of
si,is paper.
The Grenada gazette., 1887-10-22

This train will stop at all flag stations
New Orleans mail north will stop at
Love, Nesbit, Horn Lake and White
haven to put off passengers holding
tickets to these points froin stations
south of Sardis Southbound this
train will stop ut said points when
tagged 10y agent to take on passen-
gers south Of sSardis.
The Grenada gazette., 1887-10-22

-Aa astaal Incident in one Of ths
xAilalslphis esmeteriess Mother (rsad'
i g spltaphl ~ last 8 wanderer hss
). sesl4 ~ Little girl --"Why.
! ..1l y = y ~ nust hive been = trump"
The Grenada gazette., 1887-10-22

Schedule in Effect June sth, 1887.
The Grenada gazette., 1887-10-22

See that your Tickets read oper the
Mississippi 8'7ennessee Railroad
Ask agents TOR il.
, 1887-11-17
Thrift of a Boston Householder.

A man who owns an apartment house
on Back bay wa asked the other day If
he had let all the suites In it.
"Oh, yes" he replied. 81 nave just let
the last to summer ~boarders.n
Summer boardersr' repeated the
other. what in the world do you mean?r
Whereupon the householder explained
that the lessees were people from New
Orleans, who came north when the heats
OF spring came II, and who took the
apartments for the year in order to be
provided with accommodations which
pleased them. This suggests unlimited
possibilities of the Box and Cox order.
The owners Of apartments who are
shrewd enough and OF a commercial con-
science sufficiently flexible will hereafter
endeavor to let furnished suites to north
erners for the winter and to southerners
for the summer, each tenant, of course,
paying a full years rent. From such a
practice to light comedy is, of course, but
a step. One family will be a day late in
moving in or one family will be a day
late in moving out, and there is an ex-
cuse for a tangle Of complications only
limited by the boundaries of the invention
of the author.-Providence Journal.
, 1887-11-17
FINGER AND TOE PHOTOS.

An Album Which Contains a Curious Col
lection of Pictures-Hands and Feet.
"My hand and foot album is the
dainty inscription on the cover Of a small
but highly priced volume belonging to a
young lady living in the Mission. The
book is bound in morocco and was evil
IDENTIFY Intended by its maker as an album
for small card photographs of the regu-
lation portrait order. The novel use to
which it Is now put has made of the little
volume one Of the oldest of curios. In
nearly every one of the spaces prepared
for portraits is a photograph of a feminine
hand or foot.
How did L get this collection? We'll,
If you won't write anything ridiculing it
I'll tell you"
That is what the owner of the album
said to a reporter.
You see," she went on, as she turned
the leaves OF the interesting volume,
some of the girls in this part of town
with whom 1 am acquainted hit upon the
idea of having their hands photographed.
L believe the first one wanted to perpetu-
ate the taper finger on which she had Just
had an engagement ring placed. The
picture was taken in a little circle, with
star points all around it, and showed moth
Ing but the hand INT a portion of the
wrist. Here it is, you see."
A remarkably pretty hand, white and
dimpled like a baby's, was shown.
eyes, that wa the first, 1 believe. The
girl showed it around among a few of her
most intimate friends, of whom 1 am one,
and they all thought the picture such a
cute one that they Immediately made
up their minds to have something after
the same style taken of their W hands.
OF course, they didn't all nave engage
ment rings on, but some of them made
believe by using other rings, and others
had their hands taken plain, as you will
see, without any ring at all"
But about these feetS' asked the re-
porter as slippered and booted extremi-
ties were shown in passing.
WELL" said the owner of the album,
just the least bit shyly, ''you know when
girls get started on such notions as these
they always go from one thing to another.
At first they thought it would be awful to
follow out such a suggestion, but finally a
very brave possessor of a pair of No. 2's
said she wasn't afraid, and if the other
girls would go with her to the gallery she
would sit for a foo photograph. So they
went, and the result was that the whole
party Except one girl, who wore No. 5's>
had their feet taken. You can see them
here in all positions and styles"
In nearly every case there was a fringe
of dress skirt above the shoe or slipper,
but in one or two instances this was lack
ing. However, nothing betokening i'm
modesty could be observed. There were
high, arched insteps and low, broad toes
and narrow, but nearly all wore common
sense low heels, as the average mission
girl knows that running to catch a car
with a pencillike heel under her is any
thing but nice, n there is a good deal of
car catching dom in the mission.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
, 1887-11-17

English visitors to the battlefield of
Waterloo complain in the Belgian papers
Of the molestation and insults to which
they have been exposed by so called guides
over the battlefield. The communal
authorities of Waterloo and the neighbor.
ing localities will do well to look after the
matter unless they wish to kill the goose
which lays the golden eggs during the
tourist season. In former years, twenty
and thirty years ago, some of the guides
had heard the cannon roar during the
battle, although IN intelligent questioner
very soon found out that they had done
so at a considerable distance from the
field Of battle; but the so called guides Of
the present time are nothing else but a
set Of the most rapacious and rude raga-
muflns.-Brussels Cor. london Times.
, 1887-11-17
IN A HAMMOCK.

Most sweet 1t Is within this circle made
OF deeper green than the outlying grass,
Whereon the sun strikes straight this ring OF
shade
With tent Of ~freighted apple boughs. wherep pass
A thousand lances through OF light.
A mass
or satin leaves lean back and bear some fruit
To the suns favor. Down from bough to root
The apples drop too heavy for the stem
With rlpeness. One knows not II scent of them
Is better, or thoir golden dashed with red
Unto the eye, or when they're cloven through
The favor of them. after that they drew
Into their veins what honey was not shed
Within their blossoms when the bees had fed.
The sound of rustling husks on idle airs
Comes softly. How the regal dnhlia shares
Great splendor with the marigolds. The quaint
Petunia gives us breath as soft aud faint
As film of Its one petal. Salvias fame
And coleus burn upon the lawn, the same s
As in all olden autumns. Trellised vine
Shows dusky purple of some unmade wine.
The fragrant, very air about us Is
AS nectar drawn through scented chalices
Of flower and fruit, for mind and body's good.
And so one feeds upon the sounds, scents, lights,
So sating the souls hunger with souls food,
And cannot drink enough of these delights.
One turns the leaves OF nature to forget
The leaves uncut of latest novelette,.
Jennie Maxwell Paine in Brooklyn Eagle.
, 1887-11-17

The chief plant products of West At
RIGA having a present economic value are,
according to a new handbook by Capt.
Alfred Moloney, palm oil, ground nuts,
india rubber, coffee, gum, dye woods,
cacas, cotton, ibers and timbers. Palm
oil is obtained from a plant covering i'm
mense areas, and Is imported to England
to the value of nearly IS, 900, 900 yearly.
A new product is the white African rub
ber," from landolphia owariensis, in
which the trade has risen during the last
four years from almost nothing to nearly
$50, 600. Many plants yield valuable
gums, n many have important medici-
nal properties. There is besides a won
derful botanical wealth whose possible
practical value is yet unknown.-Arkan,
saw Traveller.
, 1887-11-17
q
A oLDEN.

Into the battle of being he rushed like true pa
lAdin olden,
High beat his valorous heart-and the dreams of
the morning were golden:
Arches that bent meath the garlands which fair
hands of maidens had woven;
Temples that glittered with armor and helmets
his stout AK had cloven;
Symphonies, rife with his prowess, that float
through the dome heaven trendlng;
Plaudits OF monarchs and nations-and laurels
and titles intending.
LESvoI.
On a gray stone in the background, set up In a
desolate valley,
Here where the band fierce beleagured he vainly
endeavored to rally,
Carven In rude, fading letters a lame and a date
the tale endeth,
HAPPY a martyr TRANSPORTED into the supernal
ascendethl
W. D. Chisholm in N. o. m Democrat
, 1887-11-17
DON'T

let that cold of yours run on. You think
it is a little thing. But it may run into
catarrh. Or into pneumonia. Or con
sumption.
Catarrh is disgusting. Pneumonia is
dangerous. Consumption is death itself.
The breathing apparatus must be kept
healthy and clear of all Instructions and
offensive matter. Otherwise there is
trouble ahead.
All the diseases OF these parts, head,
nose, throat, bronchial tubes and lungs.
can be delightfully."- and entirely cured by
the use of Boschce's German Syrup. II
you don't know this already, thousands
and thousands Of people can tell you.
They have been cured by it, and know
how it is, themselves, Bottle only rs
cents. Ask any druggist
, 1887-11-17

1t is well to know that contagion is
not i~nfrequently carried by the common
rnturn postage stamp inclosed in letters.
No one is able to know the condition of
tie mouth of the person who has wet one
corner of the stamp in order to attach it
to the inside of the letter; no one knows
unier what conditions it may have been
while in the pocketbook or diary of a
penon exposed to various fevers or germ
diseases, or whether it may not nave lain
on some desk in n house where such sick
ness prevails. Equal danger lies also in
a great deal Of the money in circulation,
if apI lied to the mouth, as we often use
a piece of money in the street cars or
other wise. This is fortunately such a
violation Of good breeding that it is fast
ceasing to be a custom. Safety lies in
applying neither postage stamp nor
money to the mouth.-Harper's Bazaar.
, 1887-11-17
Life.

"All that a man hath it has been
SAID, will he give for his life" But
thus is only true in a narrow and qualified
sense. a large majority of people short
en- life by becoming victims to Dyspepsia,
Biliousness, Constipation, Headache,
Malaria. etc. If YOU continue to suffer
from these troubles, you have no excuse,
for we tell you plainly that Simmons Liv,
er Regulator will rid you of them and
like disorders caused by n sluggish state
of the Liver, Stomach or Bowels. Ask
the recovered dyspepties, bilious suffer.
ers. victims of Fever and Aguc, the mcr.
curial-diseased patient, how they recov
cred health, cheerful spirits and good
appetite-thev will tell you by taking
Simmons Liver Regulator. This Justly
celebrated medicine regulates the Liver,
promotes digestion aud ~iortities the sys
ten against malarial diseases.
, 1887-11-17
Average Now ENGLAND Man.

What the average New England man
of birth and breeding is today it is not
altogether pleasant to contemplate. He
is usually neither fish, flesh nor good red
herring. Thoroughly un-American, and
only hybrid English, French or italian, as
his European wanderings have happened
to affect him, he is physically fragile,
nervous and refined to the point of FEM
ininity. Mentally he is a victim of over
culture and has lost all grasp of matter in
his concern as to manner, caring less for
ideas than for correct expression, and,
while the Scion of a young people. jaded,
blase and satiated.-Brooklyn Eagle.
, 1887-11-17

There are bath fanatics who ignorantly
think that life without an epidermis is the
only desirable form of existence, The
raptures of saponiication and of scrub
bling are all very well as a luxury, though
the inunctions of the Roman therme were
better, because the oil used after the bath
supplied some protection to the abraded
skin. Blu the fury of Tubing is only for
the strong, and even the strong, if they
practice their rites in a malarious coun-
try, have been observed to sicken sooner
than those who have contented them
selves with cleansing, and have not gone
on to excoriation.-Dr. Titus Munson
Conn in Harper's.
, 1887-11-17

No flower OF the garden has bloomed
more profusely and beautiful this
fall than the dahlia. The plant was
found originally in Mexico. and was
similar to the single petaled specimens
now popular. A plant was sent to Mad
rid in 1888, where it was seen in blossom
by the Able Cavanilles, who named it
after his friend, Professor Dahl, Of Stock
holm. In 1904 Humboldt went to Mexico
and sent to Europe seeds of the wild
dahlia, and from his seeds the plants now
grown universally descended. By de-
grees it doubled and sported till it be-
came the perfect flower we now enjoy
Springfield Union.
, 1887-11-17
THE ROOMS.

The lady then took the reporter through
the house. Only one room was untidy,
and that was the actors. Clay pipes and
tobacco were scattered over the mantel;
shoes, slippers and clothing were thrown
about the room, while on the bed, slovenly
made up, was a pile of manuscript and
books.
"Tbis man is an actor of good parts"
explained the lady, "but he is slouchy
about his room. Quite different is the
next room that is occupied by the engi-
neer."
This room vas %neatness personiied.
The bed was as smooth as could be, the
floor was swept clean, and the tin pans
were as bright as the brasses on his engine
probably were. A small library was sus-
pended GU a shelf containing books on
railroading, a dictionary and Shakespeare.
Other rooms visited showed the same
ncatness, but each had some character
istic of the occupant by way of ornament.
The policeman had two clubs crossed over
his mantel with a pair of boxing gloves
between them. The clerks room was
fixed up with plush holders for brushes
and papers, ' TIL the photographs of noted
actresses stuck here and there on the
walls. A pile of poker chips and q pack
Of cards were most conspicuous in the
bOOkkeeper's room, but the beds were
well made and the floors and dishes clean.
'These men" said the lady, "are up
early, get their breakfast, wash their
dishes, dress for business and are off, all
of them before 8 o'clock. They return
from 4 to Z at night, get their supper and
go out again. They are quiet and better
tenants than any l ever had"
ais poverty the cause of their living in
this wayf''
"Oh, no, l guess not. You know the
old saying hat one half the world doesn't
know how the other half lives. l saw the
bookkeeper's salary envelope one week
and it had $50 marked on it. l am sure
hat all of my dodgers except the actor get
good salaries. He sometimes doesn't get
any but l let him stop, for he pays when
he CAM
At this j%uncture a neatly dressed gen
tleman came in n passed up the stairs.
1t was the b~ookkeeper, and the reporter
recognized lii as a familiar sight in the
hotel %rotundas, q good fellow all around,
and supposed to live at a fashionable
boarding house up town.
The shopping for the roomers was lone
by the girl, who bought whatever the
lodger wished, -Rking his book to the store
and entering each article of provision
purchased, for which the men paid weekly.
New York Evening Sun. 4u